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JENE'ITA VALENTINE BOHANNAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CIGARETTE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,432, dated July 1, 1890.

Application filed November 19, 1889. Serial No. 330,832. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENETTA VALENTINE BOHANNAN, acitizen of the United States, residing at the city of Vashington, in the District of Columbia, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a machine for making continuous cigarettes,

[O a continuous strip of paper for the wrapper being used; and my said invention consists of several distinct and novel improvements in the construction and operation of such a machine and in certain combinations of devices whereby the continuous paper wrapper is intermittingly drawn into the machine from a reel in lengths each suitable for a cigarette, the tobacco out, then crushed, then deposited upon the paper wrapper, the filler material .20 then pressed upon the paper to compact it and smooth its top down evenly, then wrapped in the paper wrapper and compressed, the edges of the paper wrapper being held apart, and are then pasted along one edge, the edges 2 5 of the paper wrapper then closed and united, and, finally, the compacted cigarette-filler is pressed While in the paper wrapper and shaped and a cigarette severed, these several steps being effected in the progressive order stated,

0 so that at each revolution of the drive-shaft a cigarette will be produced and severed from the continuous cigarette. These several inventions will be separately designated in the claims concluding this specification.

3 5 The accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, illustrate a machine which embodies all my improvements sepaarately and in combination.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents in top view my improved machine for makingcigarettes, wherein the organization is shown in the preferred form of a double machine for operatin g with two separate and distinct continuous cigarettes to increase the capacity for produc- 4 5 ing the single cigarettes, the parts being shown in the posit-ions they occupy at the time when the paper wrapper h asj ust been folded lapped, and compressedoverthecompactedfiller. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same,

taken on the linexosot Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is avertical transverse section taken through one of the tobaeco-containiu g boxes of the double machine.

Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section taken through the tobacco-containing box, showing the positions of the parts when thecut leaves of the tobacco are being crushed together to form the compacted filler and to evenly and. smoothly lay the fiber preparatory to depos iting such filler upon the paper wrapper. Fig. 5 shows the front or cigarette-delivering end 6:) of the machine in elevation. Fig. 6 is a vertical transverse section taken through the jaws which wrap and lap the paper wrapper and bunch and compress the filler into cylin drical form while in the paper wrapper, the jaws being shown in their open position. Fi 7 is a similar section taken through the troughslide, showing the vertically-oscillating presser. Fig.8 represents a partial top view of the machine, the jaws being open. Fig. 9 repre- 7o sents in perspective that portion of I he trouglr slide which contains the paper wrapper guiding trough and the vertically-oscillating presser. Fig. 10 represents in perspective that portion'of the slide which contains the paper wrapping, lapping, and compressing jaws, the paste-delivering nozzle, the paper-wrapperclosing ring, and the support for the continuous cigarette. Fig. 11 shows the deliveringnozzle for the paste and the flexible finger or part for smoothing the paste over the edge of the paper wrapper. Fig. 12 shows in detail cross-sectionparts of the slide and the paper wrapping, lapping, and compressing jaws in the open position of the latter. Fig. 13 shows the same parts in the closed position of the jaws, the edges of the wrapper being lapped, but held in separated relation, during the sec ond compression of the filler while in the continuous paper wrapper. Fig. 14 representsa 9o horizontal section, showing the drive-shaft, its connected slide-frame, and its connections for operating the several cigarette-forming devices. Fig. 15 is a top view of the jaws for feeding and compressing the partially- 9 5 wrapped cigarette and the relative arrangement of the parts when said jaws are at the extreme of their feeding movement and as having been released from the fixedplates Q and opened just previous to commencing rc-o their return movement with the slide. Fig. 16 is a transverse section of the same on the line y y of Fig. 15. Fig. 17 is a top view of the same parts shown in Fig. 15, the jaws being shown at the extreme of their rearward movementand as having been closed upon the partially-wrapped cigarette just previous to their feeding movement with the slide. Fig. 18 is a transverse section of the same 011 the line 'y y of Fig. 17, and Fig. 19 showsin perspective the recessed head of the slide and the jaws as separated therefrom.

While the drawings illustrate a machine with its several operating parts compactly organized for producing two continuous cigarettes at the same time, yet it is obvious that the machine may be constructed for producing a single continuous cigarette, and that such cigarette or cigarettes may be severed into single cigarette lengths as it or they are delivered from the machine or by a subse: quent operation. It will also be understood that while I preferto provide the tobacco from shavings cut from a plug or plugs, yet it is obvious that the tobacco may be supplied in other forms to the paper wrapper and by means other than a cutter, for it will be seen that. the formation of the continuous cigarette in accordance with my invention is not dependent upon any particular way of supplying the tobacco to the continuous paper wrapper. In the construction shown, however, I provide a box at the side of the machine for containing the tobacco, and I provide a vertically-acting cutter B for shaving it off in lengths crosswise of the plug, so that it will be delivered upon a continuous paper wrapper C, suitably supported and guided in a trough D, formed in a slide E, which I term the trough-slide, and subsequently form into a continuous cigarette, as I shall now describe.

In the further description of the machine I shall refer to the delivering end thereof as the front and the feeding end of the maas they are fed thereto.

chine as the rear thereof.

A suitableframe is provided, upon which are mounted in proper arrangement the several operating parts of the machine, the several separate and distinct co-operating functions of which in the formation of the continuous cigarette are in successive order..

The cutter B is mounted upon a suitable vertically-reciprocating frame F, so as to cut the tobacco from the face of the pile of plugs Such cutter-frame may consist of a sash suitably supported and operated by a crank-shaft G and a pitman H, as I will hereinafter describe, or other device for cutting. At right angles to the feed of the tobacco and directly below the line of the cut of the knife I arrange a long trough D, which contains and guides the continuous paper wrapper to receive the cut tobacco and wherein I form the continuous cigarette. This trough I prefer to form in the upper surface of the slide E, which is preferably formed with a head-block E, which is fitted to be intermittingly reciprocated within certain limits between guides I, fixed upon the table of the frame at one side of the cutter, and the object of such intermittingly-reciprocating movement I will presently state. The trough terminates at that end of the head-block E which is nearest the cutterB, and the transverse section is such as to hold the paper wrapper with its edges standing up ward above the tobacco and to retain them in such position as to' enter and to receive the closing and lapping parts of a laterally-sliding compressing device or pair of jaws, which I will presently describe. I prefer to construct the trough wide at its receiving end, or where it receives the paper wrapper, but gradually becoming smaller at the point at which the tobacco is supplied, and from thence to its front end its sides are parallel, as seen in Fig. 1, for the purpose of holding the filler in a suitable shape to receive the action of the oscillating compressor and also to hold up the edges of the paper. Along its top edges the trough is provided throughout its lengthwith guide-flanges a, Fig. 9, bentinward to receive and holdthe edges of the paper-wrapper as it is drawn into the machine. The first action the tobacco receives after being deposited upon the paper wrapper when in U or trough form is that produced by a vertically-oscillating presser, which consists of a horizontal concave arm J, standing above and parallel to the line of the trough and carried by a lever K, pivoted in a standard L rising from the head-block F at one side of said trough, said presser being automatically operated, as I shall presently show, so as to press the tobacco within the paper wrapper while the same is in the trough. It will be understood that this pressing action is made upon the last charge of tobacco which has been deposited upon the paper wrapper. Simultaneously with this action the charge of tobacco which had previouslybeendepositedupon thepaperwrapper is being subjected while in the paper wrapper to the action of a device or pair of jaws which effects several and distinct results-that is to say, itmoves one edge of the paper over and down upon the filler. It then moves the other edge of the paper over and in lapping relation to the under edge. It separates these lapping edges, and at the same time it compresses and forms the tobacco filler into a cylindrical form within the paper wrapper in a smooth and regular manner. It serves to feed the compressed filler in the paper wrapper forward to successively move the same the length of a single cigarette each time the filler material is deposited upon the paper wrapper, and, finally, releasing its grip upon the continuous cigarette, returns to its normal position to receive the same for the next single cigarette. This compressing and feeding device consists of two jaws L L, which are fitted upon the head-block E face to face, and are adapted to have a sliding motion imparted tothem toward and from each other at right angles to the line of the trough, and are held in place and guided in such movements by means of dovetail blocks M, Figs. 8 and 19, on their under sides fitting and sliding in corresponding dovetail recesses N in the upper surface of the head-block E. The contiguous edges or faces of these jaws are formed one with a recess Z), which extends under and curves downward to the lower side of the jaw, while the other jaw is provided with a shelf, ledge, or flange 0, inclining downward, and from its edge curves back to the lower side of the jaw, so as to form a recess cl under said shelf, as illustrated in Figs. 12 and 13. The object of this construction is to permit the acting edges of the jaws to lap one upon the other in order to lap the edges of the paper wrapper and to position and hold the vlapping edges in separated relation to each other and at the same time to press and to mold the filler and the paper wrapper around it. Coacting with the jaws having this lapping and molding function is a semi-cylindrical recess or groove e in the upper side of the head-block E, which is in line with and forms a continuation of the trough D, into anti through which the partially-wrapped continuous cigarette is fed. By this construction a mold is formed with provision for holding the overlapping edgeof the paper wrapper in tangential relation to the body of the partially-wrapped tobacco filler for the purpose of holding it and presenting the uncovered part to the pasting device. The open or normal positions of the jaws L L are maintained by springsf, (shown in Figs. 6, 8, and 19.) placed in recesses wherein the jaw-blocks M are fitted, so as to constantly tend to press the jaws away from each other, (see Figs. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 19,) while the jaws are maintained in their closed positions by means of arms P, projecting from their outer faces with their ends in contact with plates Q, which form walls standing upward from the top of the table, as shown in Figs. 1, 5, 16, and 18. It is against the inner sides of these stationary plates that the bent ends of the arms move when the jaws L L are carried forward from their rear to their forward position, while to permit of the return movement of the jaws the ends of these arms are bent downward, so that when the jaws are open these L-shaped ends ofthe arms will stand outside of and move back free of said plates Q. For this purpose the length of the fixed plates Q must be less than the extent of the stroke of the reciprocating slide a distance atleastalittle more than the width of the arms P to allow the bent ends of these arms to pass around the ends of said fixed plates at the limit of each movement of the said slide, as shown in Figs. 15 to 18. The means for closing these jaws L L, I will presently describe. Referrin g to the vertically-oscillating presser J, it is operated as follows: A spring g, connected at one end to the supporting-stud L presses upon the rear part of the lever K and constantly tends to raise the concave presser J above the trough I), while a cam projection h 011 one of the jaws acts when the latter is moved to close it upon the inner curved end of said lever, and thereby, raising said curved end, depresses the presser simultaneously with the closing movement of the jaws.

As each forward movement of the headblock carrying the jaws feeds the continuous cigarette forward the length of a cigarette, I locate the delivering-nozzle i of the pasting device upon the head-block E of the troughslide E contiguous to the front end of the jaws and so as to stand between the open edges of the paper wrapper at rightangles to the line of its feed, with the delivering-orifice on its under side arranged so as to deliver the paste on the upper side of the under edge of the paper wrapper as the said nozzle and the head-slide E are moved toward the deliving end of the machine, as shown in Figs.10 and 11. For this purpose I prefer to make this nozzle 1 flat, with an orificej in its under side, and to provide the nozzle with a felt pad or similar material to distribute and spread the paste as it is delivered on the edges of the paper wrapper, the said pad being placed at the front side of the orifice. The paste-delivering tube Ris suitably supported on theslide head-block E, and has a flexible section S, connecting with a suitable paste-containing receptacle T, from which the paste is fed by pressure, as I shall presently describe. For preventing the flow of the paste from the nozzle when the latter is standing still, I provide a suitable valve Z, (and that shown is of the plug form,) which is kept closed by a spring we, and which is opened every time the slide moves forward by means which I will presently describe. Coincident with the recess e in the slide head-block Efor the contiguous cigarette, and at a point just in front of the paste-delivery nozzle, I provide a ring 71 of the diameter of the continuous cigarette, the function of which is to close the top edge of the paper wrapper closely and smoothly upon the pasted lower edge of the paper and to support the continuous cigarette while the paper wrapper is being so closed.

At a suitable distance in front of the paperwrapper-closing ringIarrange upon the table a clamp composed of a fixed and a movable jaw U V, each part being provided with a coincident groove 1) in the line of said ring and the recess e of the slide head-block, the function of which jaws is to receive the cigarette and clamp and hold it while the slide E is returning to its normal or rear position. For this purpose the movable jaw V, which, as shown, is the upper one, is raised to open the clamp to permit the continuous cigarette to be fed between the jaws and closed to clamp the continuous cigarette by means which I shall presently describe. This construction, it will be seen, permits the movable jaw to be utilized as means for carrying a cutter for severing single cigarettes from the continuous cigarette each time the clamp closes, and for this purpose I provide a suitable cutter WV at the front or delivery end of the clamp attached to the movable jaw, so as to act with the end of the fixed jaw to sever the cigarette.

Intermediately between the paper-wrapperclosing ring and the end clamping-jaws I provide a suitable device for supporting the continuous cigarette as it is fed through the space between these parts, because it is at this point that the continuous cigarette might be liable to sag or buckle and be broken by reason of its less rigidity at the points where the two ends of the tobacco filler meet, and at which points the single cigarettes are severed. As shown, this device consists of a sliding rest X, suitably supported in the slide head-block and adapted to be stopped, so that the ring can come up to it by coming in contact with the innerend of the fixed jaw as the slide head-block E is moved forward, while the rest is moved out toward the said fixed jaw by means of a-spring Y, arranged within the slide head-block, so as to constantly push the rest out, as seen in Figs. 8 and 10.

I prefer to use very thin tobacco-plugs placed one upon the other to obtain a thickness sufficient to produce at one cut a filler of separate long shavings or filaments for one cigarette, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4:, and I provide suitable feed-rolls q for feeding the tobacco-plug to the cutter.v The feed-rolls are geared together by gears r and s, and the shaft of the lower one has on its other end a ratchet-wheel t, which is operated by a rigid arm a, connected to and standing upward from the outer sash F, so as to strike and move the ratchet-wheel t to feed the tobacco the required distance for the proper thickness of the shaving every time the cutter rises.

The cutter frame or sash is mounted in suitable guides, and is operated by means of a pitman I-I, connected with a crank G of a power-driven shaft mounted in suitable bearings at that end of the machine upon which the continuous roll or reel of paper '0 is mounted, as shown in Fig. 2. (lo-operating with the end of the tobacco-containing box is a laterally-swinging gate w, consisting of a plate pivoted in a suitable bracket 00 above the box and having its lower horizontal depending edge curved toward the end of the box and extending below the feed-surface thereof, so as to form in connection with a curved ledge or abutment a on the end of the box a gutter to receive the filler material and hold it to receive the action of a crusher 2, secured on the back of the knife about on a level with the plane of its edge for the purpose of crushing the separate shavings and separate the leaves in each shaving. For this purpose I provide for locking the gate in its lower position to form such gutter by means of a latch 3, depending from the cutter-head, so that the descent of the latter will carry it over an arm 4, Fig. 4, of the said gate, and

thus lock it to the end of the box. Upon the ascent of the cutter the gate is unlocked from the arm of the cutter-head, and by means of a suitable lever 5 is caused to act as a cam against the upper end of the pivoted plate and force it toward the box, which thus opens the gutter and allows the crushed filler material to fall upon the paper wrapper, which is confined in the trough. For this purpose the upper end 6 of the swinging gate w is curved or inclined away from the cutter, and its operating-lever 5 is pivoted upon a standard 7 and raised by its connection with the cuttersupporting latter moves upward said lever 5 will operate to 'open the gate, as stated. The descent of the cutter-frame carries the lever 5 free of the upper end of the said gate, and the said upper end 6 of the gate, acting as a weight, serves to again close the lower end of the gate upon the box-abutment z to form the gutter to receive the next charge of filler material.

I have stated that the trouglrslide and its several devices for forming the continuous cigarette have an intermittent reciprocating movement within certain limits, and the means for effecting this movement I will now describe.

A horizontal reciprocating slide or frame 8 is mounted in suitable guideways 9 in the vertical walls of the frame beneath the table and is operated by a horizontal pitman 10,

-which connects it with the crank G of the drive-shaft. As shown in Fig. 2, I prefer to connect the vertical knife-operating pitman II with the horizontal slide-operating pitman 10, whereby the pitman II is utilized to operate the cutter in a direct vertical line, and thereby avoid the necessity of directly attaching the vertical pitman to the crank of the drive-shaft.

The following means are provided for operating the laterallysliding jaws L L: Mounted in suitable supports upon the table are two levers 5 5, standing in the line of and on each side of the slide E and having their forward ends bent downward and terminating in bevels 11 on their inner sides, as shown in Figs. 6 and 17. These beveled lever ends stand in such vertical relation to the L-shaped ends of the arms P of said jaws as to cause said levers to strikeupon the outer ends of the said arms and act as wedges to force the jaws together and place and hold the arm ends within the inner walls of the vertical plates, as shown in Figs. 1 and 17, whereby the said jaws are locked and permitted to be moved forward in their closed positions. This action of the levers is effected at the proper moment by the vertical movement of the cutter-frame, to which the other ends of the levers 5 are connected by means of a horizontal rod 12, connected to the upper end of the knife-frame, the ends of the levers being slotted to allow of their proper movement, as seen in Fig. 2. Upon the descent of the knife the beveled ends 11 of the levers are raised and f c jaws are allowed to open when free from their abutting plates, which is at the extreme forward position of the jaws after frame or sash F, so that when the they have fed the cigarette forward, as in Fig. 15. The slide E, that carries the laterally-operating jaws L L, is connected by its head-block to the under slide 8 by a vertical rod 13, as seen in Figs. 2 and 6, and, while one slide is thus made to operate the other, it will be seen that by the provision of a recess or slot 14 in the said slide E the latter has no movement while the jaws L L are being closed and while the filler material is being deposited upon the paper wrapper. It will be understood, however, that while the slide E is thus without movement the under crank-perated slide 8 continues to move forward within certain limits free of it until at last it carries the slide E with it to the end of its stroke, at the end of which movement a single cigarette is out from the continuous cigarette.

The following means are provided for operating the vertically-operating jaw V, which grips and holds the continuous cigarette while the jaws L L, which are opened laterally, carried by their slides E are being carried back to their normal positions or where their feed commences, as in Fig. 17: The top jaw V is carried by two rods 15, which pass down through the table and carry at their lower ends a plate 16, which has formed thereon two inclines 17 and 18, which stand in the same direction, one merging into the upper side of the plate and the other merging into the un der side of the plate, as seen in Figs.2 and 14. This top jaw is constantly forced down by springs 19 upon its supporting-rods bearin g upon the under side of the table and upon the said plate. The means for raising and tripping this top jaw consists of a plate or arm 20, pivoted to the top of the under slide, and, extending forward, is providedwith a projection 21, formed with two inclines which stand in the same relative direction to each other (see Fig. 2) and to those of the jaw-plate and in coincident vertical relation (see Fig. to the latter, so that as the under slide moves forward the forward incline of the projection 21 of its pivoted plate strikes the under incline 18 of the jawplate 16 and, riding under it, lifts it, and thus raises the top jaw to allow the continuous cigarette to be moved forward. The projection 21 of the pivoted plate then passes forward from under the jaw-plate, and thereby trips it and permits it to fall and be closed by its springs. On the return movement of the under slide the inner and under incline of the projection 21 of the pivoted plate rides over the upper front incline 17 of the jaw-plate 16, and is thereby permitted to pass back over the jawplate to be in position to be again moved forward to raise the top jaw.

The cutter IV, for severing the single cigarettes from the continuous cigarette, I prefer to secure to the outer end of the upper jaw, so that the downward movement of the latter to clamp and hold the continuous cigarette for tlie purpose stated is utilized to operate the said cutter.

I have stated that the flow or feed of the paste to the edge of the paper wrapper is controlled by a valve Z, and it will be seen in Fig. that for this purpose the plug-valve is maintained in closed position to cut elf such flow by means of a spring m upon the stem of said valve, while the following provision is made for intermittingly opening said valve to permit the flow of the paste from the nozzle of its supply-pipez At the forward end of the slide 8 an arm 22 is attached, which extends upward and over the table on a horizontal plane with the stem of the valve, so that as the slides E and 8 move back the end of this arm will be brought into contact with the end of said valve, and, pushing it in, will open the discharge orifice and maintain such opening during the full return movement of the headblock slide E, so that the paper-wrapped edge in this way will be pasted a distance equal to the length of a single cigarette. The receptacle or closure T for containing the paste I prefer to form of a Water-tight flexible material, suitably supported upon the table by a rigid top band 23, and connect its lower end or head to avertieal rack-bar24, the function of which is to press the bottom of the flexible closure upward, and thereby press and force the contents out through the valvecontrolled supply-pipe S, which is connected to the fixed top band 23 of the vessel. This upward movement of the rack-bar is effected intermittingly as follows: A pinion 25, supported beneath the table, engages the raek-bar and has on its shaft another pinion 26, which engages a worm 27 j ournaled upon the frame. This worm has a pinion 28, which engages another worm 29, on the shaft of which is a ratchet-Wheel 30, which stands vertically. An arm 31 depends from the forward end of the slide 8 and carries a ratchet-pawl 32 in position to engage the ratchet-wheel 3O everytime the slide 8 is moved toward the rear end of the machine, and thereby, operating the wormgear 24, turns the rack-connecting pinions and intermittingly raises the rack-bar and compresses the paste-containing vessel, for the purpose stated. The cover of this pastecontaining receptacle may be removed for filling the same, and the latter may be supported upon a head-plate of the rack-bar for convenient removal, if desired. It will be understood that while the paste-containing receptacle has a fixed relation to the table, and the paste-supply pipe has a fixed relation to the head-block E of the trough-slide E, the provision of the flexible section S of the supply-pipe permits the movement of the troughslide E, and thereby allows the paste-delivering nozzle to move over the paper wrapper to paste its edge, as stated, while the continu ous cigarette is being held by jaws U V.

The devices for producing two separate IIO and distinct continuous cigarettes are ar ranged side by side in parallel relation upon the top of the table, with the tobacco containing boxes projecting from the opposite sides thereof in coincident relation, so that the cutters of each box will be operated by the same rod 12 and vertical sash or frame, which for this purpose is made of U shape, so that both cutters are thereby connected and .operated by the same crank-shafuas shown in Figs. 1 and 3. This construction provides a convenient arrangement for operating two sets of levers 5,a gutter-forming gate w for each cutter-box, a trough-slide E for each continuous cigarette, and the two sets of folding, lapping, and compressing jaws L L. The paste-containing receptacle is provided with flexible supply-pipes for both continuous cigarettes, and the front end of the under crankoperated slide is provided with like arms 22, for operating the paste-controlling valves. The hinged plate 20 stands crosswise on the under side, and is provided at each end with like inclines for operating the vertically-acting clamping-jaw for each continuous cigarette-forming device. In this way the several operating devices for the double work are arranged in compact and unitary relation.

While I have shown and describedthe machine as organized for producing a continuous cigarette in which only a filler for a single cigarette is produced and treated at a time, it will be understood that by increasing the size of the operating parts a filler may be produced long enough for two or more single cigarettes, in which case the throw of the crank must be correspondingly changed.

Although I have described and shown a machine embodying separate and distinct devices and mechanisms which constitute sepa- 'longitudinally-reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermittin g laterally-sliding jaws arranged upon said head-block and having coacting wrapping and forming means in their meeting faces, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cigarette-machine employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding jaws 'arranged upon said head-block, having in their meeting faces concave recesses b and cl, one of which is supplemented by a shelf or ledge c, entering the opposite recess, and a clamp arranged in front of said head-block for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

3. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinallyreciprocating slide E, having a trough D and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove a, registering with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding jaws L L, arranged upon said head-block, the meeting faces of which are constructed one with an under-curved recess 1), terminating at the bottom of the jaw, the other with an under-curved recess c terminating at the bottom of the jaw and supplemented by a shelf or ledge 0, adapted to enter the recess Z) of the opposite jaw, whereby the paper is wrapped around the filler, but the edgesheld in separated relation to each other, and the filler compressed into form in the wrapper, the paste-nozzle t and the wrapperclosing ring a, both carried by said headblock, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

4. In a cigarette-machine employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter-being provided with a groove registering. with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding jaws arranged upon said head-block, having coacting cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a vertically-oscillating presser J, carried by said slide in the rear of said jaws, the paper-wrapper-closing ring 12, carried by the head-block, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, arranged in front of said head-block, substantially as described.

5. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally reciprocating slide havin gatrough an d head-block, thelatter provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding jaws located upon said head-block, having coacting cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a pasting-nozzle 1', carried by said head-block in front of said jaws, the paper-wrapper-closing ring 01, carried by said head-block in front of said nozzle, and suitable means arranged in front of said pastingnozzle and ring for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

6. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being pro vided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding jaws located upon said head-block, having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a vertically-oscillating presser J, arranged upon said slide in rear of said headblock, a pasting-nozzle 2', carried by said headblock in front of said jaws, the paper-wrap per-closing ring 02, carried by said head-block in front of said nozzle, and a clamp arranged in front of said pastingnozzle for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

7. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a tobacco-containing box having a concave ledge z at its delivery end, a cutter reciprocating across the end of said box, a gate 10, having a gutter y at its lower edge and pivoted to swing against and from the delivery end of said box, and a concave crusher 2, arranged upon said cuttter, substantially as described.

8. In a machine for making cigarettes einploying a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter provided wit-h a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding jaws arranged upon said head-block, provided with cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a tobacco-containing box arranged above said slide and liavingthe ledgez at its delivery end, a reciprocating cutter B, having a concave crusher 2, an intermitting laterally-swinging gate 10, having a gutter y at its lower end, and means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

9. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a tobacco-containing box having the ledge e at its delivery end,'a cutter B, reciprocating across the end of said box, a gate w, having a gutter t/ at its lower edge and pivoted to swing automatically against the delivering end of said box, a concave crusher 2 and a latch-arm 3, both arranged upon said cutter, and suitable means for positively swinging said gate away from said box, whereby the said gate is first looked against said box and released, substantially as described.

10. In a machine for making cigarettes employin g a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a tobacco-containing box having the ledge e at its delivering end, a gate to, having a gutter y and the arm 4, said gate being pivoted to swing toward the delivery end of said box by gravity,suitable means for intermittingly and positively swinging said gate away from said box, and a reciprocating cutter B, having a concave-crusher 2 and a latch-arm 3, for locking said gate, substantially as described.

11. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a tobacco-containing box having a curved ledge zat its delivery end, agate w, pivoted to swing automatically against said box and having at its lower end a gutter y, cooperating with said ledge, said gate having bination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterallysliding jaws arranged upon said head-block, provided in their meeting faces with cigarette wrapping and forming devices, a fixed pastecontaining nozzle i, mounted upon said headblock in front of said jaws, a flexible pasteconveying tube 8, connecting said fixed receptacle with the nozzle, and the paper-wrapperclosing ring it, carried by said head-block, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

13. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterallysliding jaws arranged upon said head-block and having coacting cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a fixed paste-containing receptacle T, a pastedelivcring nozzle 1 mounted upon said headblock in front of said jaws, a paste-conveying tube 3, connecting the receptacle and the nozzle, a spring-controlled valve Z on for said nozzle, and a fixed stop or abutment 22,whereby said valve is intermittingly opened, the paper-wrapper-closing ring 91, carried by said head-block, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as herein set forth.

14. In a cigarette-machine employinga continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter beingprovided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterally-sliding aws arranged upon said head-block, having c garette wrapping and forming devices in the r meeting faces, a paste-delivering nozzle wand a paper-wrapper-closing ring it, both carried by said head-block, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as set forth.

15. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinallyreciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterallysliding jaws arranged upon said head-block, having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, the paste-nozzle IOC IIO

v and the paper-wrapper-closing ring a, both carried by said head-block, and a clamp for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, consisting of a fixed part U and a reciprocating part V, arranged at the delivery end of the machine, substantially as described.

16. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the com bination of a longitudinally reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterallysliding jaws arranged upon said head-block and having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a paste-delivering nozzle 1', a paper-wrapper-closing ring a and a cigarette-supporting device carried by said slide in line with each other, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette as it is fed forward through the said ring, substantially as set forth.

17. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuouspaper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally -reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter provided with a groove registering with said trough, interinitting laterally sliding jaws arranged upon said head block and having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, the PEtStG-IIOZZlQt and the paper-wrapper-closing ring a, both carried by said head-block, and a clamp for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, consisting' of a fixed jaw U and a movable jaw V, and a cutter W, carried by said movable jaw V, substantially as described.

18. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterallysliding jaws arranged upon said headblock,

having cigarette wrapping and forming de vices in their meeting faces and provided with the arms P P at their out-er edges, the fixed plates Q Q, for engaging said arms, the

springs f, for forcing said jaws apart, the levers 5 5, for closing said jaws, the paste-nozzle i and the paper-wrapper-closing ring, both carried by said head block, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

19. In a machine for making cigarettes employinga continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter provided with a groove registering with said trough and a slot or recess 14, intermittin g laterally-sliding jaws arranged upon said head-block, having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, the

paste-nozzle 'i and the paper-wrapper-closing ring a, both carried by said head-block, a longitudinally-reciprocating slide 8, provided with a vertical rod 13, engaging said slot or recess 14-, suitable means for operating the said under slide 8, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

20. In a machine for making cigarettes employinga continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally -reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter provided with a groove registering with said trough and having a slot or recess 14, intermitti'ng laterally-sliding jaws arranged upon said head-block, having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, the paste-nozzle and the ring a, both carried by said head-block, means for operating said jaws and slide, consisting, essentially, of the springs f, arms P P upon said jaws, fixed plates Q Q, levers 5 5, the slide 8, provided with. a rod 13, engaging the slot'l t in said head-block, and means, substantially such as described, for operating said levers and lower slide, and means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

21. In a machine for making cigarettes employin g a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally reciprocating slide having a trough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove registering with said trough, intermitting laterallysliding jaws arranged upon said head-block and having coacting cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a vertically-oscillating presser J, fulcrumed upon said slide in rear of said jaws, means for operatin g said presser, consisting, essentially, of a lever K, a spring g, and a cam h on one of said jaws, the paste-nozzle 11, carried by said head-block, and suitable means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, substantially as described.

22. In a machine for making cigarettes employin a continuous paper wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide E, having atrough and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove e, registering with said trough, in'termitting laterally-sliding jaws L L, arranged upon said head-block and having cigarette wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, the paper-wrappenclosing ring it, carried by said head-block, and a clamp arranged in front of said jaws for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, consisting, essentially, of a lower fixed jaw U and an upper movable jaw V, the latter having guide-rods 15 and springs 19, means for operating said clamping-jaw, consisting, essentially, of a slide 8, having a hinged camarm 20, provided with a projection 21, having an upper and an under incline, and a plate 16, carried by said guide-rods, formed with inclines 17 18, corresponding to the inclines of said projection, substantially as described.

23. In a machine for making cigarettes employing a continuous paper Wrapper, the combination of a longitudinally-reciprocating slide E, having a troughD and a head-block, the latter being provided with a groove e, registering with said. trough, and a recess or slot 14:, intermitting laterally-slidingjaws L L arranged upon said head-block and having cigarette Wrapping and forming devices in their meeting faces, a pasting-nozzle 1', carried by said head-block and provided with a spring-controlled valve Z m, the ring n, carried by said head-block at the delivery end of the machine, means for alternately grasping and releasing the continuous cigarette, and means for operating said slide and valve, consisting, essentially, of a crank-operated lower slide 8, having a vertical rod 13, engaging the slot in said head-block, and a stop-arm 22, engaging said valve, substantially as set forth.

In testimonywhereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J ENETTA VALENTINE BOHANNAN,

Witnesses:

A. E. H. JOHNSON, WM. H. DE LACY. 

